Grab a friend and visit Writer-director Joe Carnahan (The Blacklist, The Grey, The A-Team, and Smokin’ Aces), on the set of his new NBC drama in Los Angeles, State of Affairs.
During your visit enjoy lunch with Joe, the cast and crew, followed by a tour of the State of Affairs sets on the Universal lot and you will take home a signed pilot script and poster.
Joe is the executive producer and writer for the show and has had a storied career behind the camera. He will be directing two episodes, Episode 106 in late September and Episode 115 in late January; there are 2 dates to choose from.
About the Show: To prioritize the biggest presidential, political and international crises facing the country, one top CIA analyst - Charleston Tucker (Katherine Heigl, "Grey's Anatomy") - assembles the President's Daily Briefing (PDB). This list of the most vital security issues facing the nation brings with it moral and political judgment calls for Charleston and her trusted group of brilliant analysts at the agency. Aside from the political minefields she has to walk, Charlie has a close personal relationship with President Constance Payton (Alfre Woodard, "Desperate Housewives") because she was once engaged to her son before a tragic terrorist attack took his life.
About Joe Carnahan: Joe Carnahan was born a storyteller. As a writer and director, he is known for seamlessly merging action and drama. His first feature film, Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane, which he wrote, directed, edited and starred in, premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.
Since, he has written and directed films including the explosive crime drama Narc, a nominee for the Best Director Independent Spirit Award and a competition film at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival; the cult classic Smokin’ Aces; the 2010 big budget remake of the classic television series The A-Team, which grossed $200 million worldwide; and 2012’s The Grey starring Liam Neeson which The New York Times hailed as one of the Top Ten Films that year and, of which, the Times film critic A.O. Scott described as a “stripped-down, elemental tale of survival in brutal circumstances, as blunt and effective — and also, at times, as lyrical — as a tale by Jack London or Ernest Hemingway.”
Carnahan is currently riding a hot streak in television with multiple projects either on the air or being picked up including NBC’s fall breakout hit The Blacklist starring James Spader for which he wrote and directed the pilot and serves as Executive Producer.